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knowingly makes any false statement on or in connection with any application to be placed on any register of electors;

forges or fraudulently defaces or fraudulently destroys any nomination paper, or delivers to a returning officer any nomination paper knowing the same to be forged;

forges or counterfeits or fraudulently defaces or fraudulently destroys any ballot paper or the official mark on any ballot paper;

without due authority supplies any ballot paper to any person;

sells or offers to sell any ballot paper to any person or purchases or offers to purchase any ballot paper from any person;

not being a person entitled to be in possession of any ballot paper which has been marked with any authorized mark has any such ballot paper in his possession;

puts into any ballot box anything other than the ballot paper which he is authorized by law to put in;

without due authority takes out of the polling station any ballot paper or is found in possession of any ballot paper outside a polling station;

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without due authority destroys, takes, opens, or otherwise interferes with any ballot box, ballot paper or packet of ballot papers in use or intended to be used for the purposes of an election;

without due authority prints any ballot paper or what purports to be or is capable of being used as a ballot paper at an election;

for the purposes of an election, manufactures, constructs, imports, has in his possession, supplies or uses, or causes to be manufactured, constructed, imported, supplied or used, any appliance, device or mechanism by which a ballot paper may be extracted, affected or manipulated after having been deposited in a ballot box during the polling at any election;

votes at any election when he is not entitled to vote thereat;

prints any advertisement, handbill, placard or poster which refers to an election and contains a reproduction of a ballot paper, or of what purports to be a ballot paper, to be used or likely to be used at such election;

obstructs or prevents a voter who is otherwise entitled to vote from voting at an election; or

votes in an election at more than one polling station in the same constituency or a different constituency, shall be liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit or to both such imprisonment and fine and, subject to any provision to the contrary in any written law relating to any election, shall until the expiration of five years from such conviction, be incapable of being registered or listed as an elector or of voting at any election or of being elected at any election, and if at that date he has been elected at any election, his seat shall be vacated from the date of such conviction:

Provided that nothing in paragraph (m) shall be deemed to prohibit, during the campaign period, the printing in any such advertisement, handbill, placard or poster of the name or symbol of one candidate only, together with a reproduction of a cross or other mark indicating approval of any such name or symbol.

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Any person who has been convicted of an offence under subsection 4(1) of the Sedition Act 1948 [Act 15], which is an offence by reason of paragraph 3(1)(f) of that Act shall, until the expiration of five years from such conviction, be incapable of being elected at any election, and if at that date of such conviction he has been elected at any election, his seat shall be vacated from that date.